Free Account Closure Bad Idea?

You gave us a free address which many users have become dependent on and an address that has become personal to them. Now you are telling us "Pay up or its gone!"

How do you think people would feel if the free email companies (Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, etc) did this with their free email addresses?

This is an address, it becomes very personal and important to you. Then the company providing it says "Sorry, we are ending the free service and the only way to keep your (personal & important) address is to pay us for it." How do you think people would take to that?

Free accounts can't remain free for ever. Even giants like Yahoo, Microsoft, Google would one day stop their free email service unless you take out a premium service with them.

However, everything is not bad news. There will be somebody out there who may want to enter the market and try to capitalize on the closure of this service by bringing their own free service. You just have to keep searching.

I do know what you mean pal. But the thing is which is VERY IRRITATING is that; ALMOST ALL ROUTERS are statically set to dyndns.com or tzo as being NUMBER ONE. After ACQUIRING/PURCHASING TZO their competitor. They're now pushing to make some money off of this. The part that irritates me is; when you don't have much of an option and they do some S*** like this to force you to pay.

NOT COOL DYNDNS ... you're off my good books.

I'm going to convert my routers to pfsense to change all that stuff and head over to d-link

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well it does tell a story for sure, being that, if this is the company who has your neck in a noose it will pull the rope. The question is would you want to continue with this type of company and is there anything else out there?

this company offered free subdomains, and many, many people assume that free subdomains will be free forever, so, a lot of people (like I am) made their life dependent of this type of service. It was free since 1998, so people believe that dyndns will remain free for the rest of their life.

A lot of devices (such as routers, ADSL modems, etc) support only dyndns, so, there is no way to reconfigure those devices.

You can say - just upgrade your device? No. This way IPv4 should have been gone - but that's a billions devices that doesn't support IPv6 - hey, IPv6 was ready to deploy in 1996! seriously, there is a proof. This is true vendor lock-in.

Long ago i seen a post on habrahabr about dyndns closing their "unlimited dns" services, so if you had bought their unlimited dns service you will lose some of your paid your domains if there is more than 100.

Last thing, i can pay for your service. No,seriously, i was ready to pay for it since 2009. But hey, you pissing me off with your prices.

Let's check your comparsion table: Hostnames to Choose From Free: 1 VIP: 30 I need: 1Domains to Choose From Free: 13 VIP: 260 I need: 1-2Access to Wildcard CNAMEs Free: No VIP: Yes I need: NoFree Email Support Free: No VIP: Yes I need: No100% Organic and Fat-Free Free: No VIP: Yes I need: NoHostname Expiration Yes it's not so good to click a link every day, but it's OK.

SO YOU WANT ME TO PAY FOR FEATURES I WILL NEVER USE?

Thank you, but no. $35 is still a lot of money for me to pay for features i will never use.

If you will close accounts regardless of what you think - Okay. But i will never, never say anything good about your company ever.

I believe DynDNS has the right to start charging for their services. They are a normal (profit-making) company after all. But they shouldn't have promised free lifetime accounts in the first place. This has messed up a lot of people's set-up (those who believed them). This is my second time where I had to start paying for what was initially free. So I just moved to another company. No big deal for me. Once properly set up everything works exactly the same.

Luckily I've got a dlink router so I set up a new user account at dlinkddns.com, and the username and password for the new account also work at dyn.com to make it easier to manage than on the clunky dlink website. But what if dyn throws in the towel on their dlink contract next. :-(